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Posted: June 17 2013 at 06:56

Tubes wrote:

As a matter of fact, I'm only interested in an analysis of Gentle Giant lyrics because I look forward to a revelation of just "how absolutely awful," they ", really are." LOL

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 06:55

I shouldn't have to remind you that that is your perception of my intentions, and not my actual intent itself. I seriously do want resources for anthologically analyzing early (or, you might say, GOOD) prog rock lyrics.

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 06:43

From the home page... PROG ARCHIVES intends to be the most complete and powerful progressive rock resource. You can find theprogressive rock music discographies from 8,007 bands & artists, 40,501 albums (LP, CD and DVD), 824,055 ratings and reviews from 46,329 members who also participate in our active forum. You can also read the new visitors guide

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So with 8007 bands and artists are you still chopping our balls with Gentle Giant? Why don't you choose a different target and...not that I'm interested, but somtimes you may speak of something that you like.

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 06:41

What do you call this then?

You disguised your intentions under the banner of "Poetry of Progressive Rock", but what you really want is for someone to respond to your anti Gentle Giant fetish.

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 06:31

Listen: I never started a thread to highlight a review of mine - let alone my first review. That was started by others. Don't let the popular bias against me, get in the way of looking at facts.

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 06:21

Let me put it this way: had you chosen to review one Gentle Giant album the way you've done, then I gather most people would be more welcoming. You then carried on writing the same review, only with different words, for more Gentle Giant albums, and if that wasn't enough, you start a thread in the forum seeking to highlight your first review.

It's not that we, or at least I, don't appreciate different opinions - neither is it because of Gentle Giant being a holy artefact not to be messed with, but infinitely more to do with the overt narcissistic and quasi provocative manner in which all of this was conveyed in.

Edited by Guldbamsen - June 17 2013 at 06:21

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 04:52

You are sure that the prog-community would be quite happy to hear my thoughts on what opinion, exactly? - That Gentle Giant's lyrics are poor? I've already touched on that in my review for Octopus - which was LAMBASTED. No offense to you yourself, but it seems to me that most members of this website who are familiar with Gentle Giant, are not interested at all in being shown, perhaps, that there isn't much to that band.

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 04:08

Yawn....

We get it, you don't like Gentle Giant...neither shocking, confronting or clever.

And boring...really f**king boring.

If you weren't merely interested in `rocking the boat', getting some attention and causing an outraged reaction, I'm sure we'd be quite happy to hear your thoughts on that opinion.

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - June 17 2013 at 04:10

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 04:07

I came across these a while ago, they may be of interest:

http://alangullette.com/essays/music/tales.htm
http://alangullette.com/essays/lit/u_and_i.htm

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 03:28

As a matter of fact, I'm only interested in an analysis of Gentle Giant lyrics because I look forward to a revelation of just "how absolutely awful," they ", really are." LOL

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 03:24

Interesting. But I'm more specifically interested in the poetry of whom I see as the true giants of progressive rock: Yes (Jon Anderson, although Howe, Squire, etc. made significant contributions), Genesis (Gabriel, but also Rutherford, Banks, Hackett, etc.), Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson), Van Der Graaf Generator (Peter Hammill), and to a lesser extent King Crimson (Pete Sinfield, Richard Palmer-James), and to an even lesser extent (the highly over-rated) Gentle Giant.

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 03:11

Tubes, probably not really the same thing, but I recall a website years ago (no idea if it even exists anymore) that looked into every line of lyrics from the Fish-era Marillion pieces, offering interpretations, references, etc?

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Posted: June 17 2013 at 03:03

So... has anyone ever undertaken a serious, comprehensive study of the lyrics written by the poesy of early/70s progressive rock? If one or several people have, I would be appreciative of forum members providing links to said analysis or analyses!